Regional climate modelling for wind farm optimization and control

The research concentrates on improving existing wind farm parameterization in the regional climate model COSMO-CLM, allowing for wind farm optimization and control. Calibration of model parameters will be done based on results from large eddy model simulation available from TFSO. COSMO-CLM is a non-hydrostatic mesoscale model and in this project, it will be used to study the interaction between large wind farm clusters and mesoscale weather systems like gravity waves, sea breezes, coastal fronts, convective and wind structures. The project will assess the effect of mesoscale weather systems on wind farm power extraction and study the potential for optimization and wind farm control. Moreover, it will assess the interaction between neighboring wind farms and get a better insight in optimal set point for wind farm operation taking into account the yield from the entire cluster instead of focusing on one farm.